I think this whole thing is quite ridiculous(?) honestly.
As I understand, "In God We Trust" was not part of the original pledge and was added sometime in the 50's, sort of a way to spite the 'godless commies' or something to that effect. In this respect I don't see anything wrong with putting it back the way it was before that, but really the whole argument seems pointless to me.
I remember in grade school saying the pledge every morning, and I also remember not getting in trouble for not saying it (at the time I was refusing to say it just trying to be a pain in the ass), and there was no real fuss made.
The thing is, most students from what I remember, just drone through the pledge without really knowing what they are even saying.
If you want to talk about promoting of religion in schools, I think the pledge is a bad example to give, what about all the christmas breaks, coloring pictures of santa, memorizing 'twas the night before christmas, singing silent night, etc. Things may have changed since I was in grade school, but that hasn't been very many years ago (I'm 19) and we were still doing all of those things then.
Teo: Hey benno putting those large pictures and divx movies on the site was a great idea!
Benno: Yes, now the world can see how cool this thing is
Teo: Hmm, the server seems a little slow
Benno: Oh, it looks like we've been posted on slashdot, I expected as much, seeing as we are using linux
Teo:...and you still put all those pictures and videos on the site?
Benno: Yep
Teo: *SLAP!*
no idea why i'm replying to this but...
that is actually the Konami code, it works in pretty much every konami game out there, just enter it at their logo.
From gamespy's review of Tropico 2 Let's start with the premise. One of the fundamental truths of the universe is that there isn't anything that can't be improved with the addition of pirates, ninjas, or monkeys.
Ok, first off, yes It sucks that that they are using wma and not mp3 or ogg or something, and yes it there could be problems playing it in some cd players, and yes to a bunch of other quite valid complaints.
Why then is this a good thing? because at least they are making an (albeit half-assed) attempt at letting people listen to the music that they paid for.
If it's this or having a virus on the fscking cd to prevent me from playing a song on my computer, then this is definitly a good thing.
The biggest question I have is if the wma tracks are made to only play within this software or can someone just rip them and listen to them in mplayer without the software?
$2.50!
a couple of months ago I bought a box of 30 of 'em for a buck at school. that's not a buck per keyboard, but a buck for the whole box.
I do have to say they are very nice keyboards, my only complaint is that, being a bit bigger than most keyboards now, they don't always fit onto desks as well.
That reminds me of an error I saw once. Sorry, I can't find the server your looking for, I mean it's responding to pings but I don't know were it's at in my apartment!
wish I could find the link again.
41 million people chose not to get phone-spam.
Given the average level of apathy and general lazyness among the american public, the fact that more than a few hundered thousand signed up should really show the telemarketers (and spammers) how screwed up their business model is.
Now we just need a national "do not spam" list; or better yet, there should be some obscenely high fee for every email over a certain number (something high enough that legitimate businesses wouldn't have to worry about it, let alone home users, but enough to kill spam).
</offtopic>
My question is, how well does this really work. I do not have a home phone (cell phone and IM work just as well); but my grandma signed on for a similar thing offered by the state (MO) before it went national, and it seemed as almost every telemarketer had found a loophole in it.
And, contrary to the popular belife, I do not spend all my time playing The Sims. Some of my favorite games are:
Soul Caliber 2
Neverwinter Nights
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy
Mario Sunshine
Tony Hawk 4
Dragon Quest
Breath of Fire
I tend to prefer games with a storyline, though I still enjoy thumb-twitching games like mario and tony hawk. The resident evil series is one of my favorite game series, and my frends and I like to get together and play it at night. The idea of a games main character being either a "sex object" or a strong femail role modle never has really entered my head, nor have I heard any of my friends mention it.
if you're wondering why Tomb Raider isn't on my list, it's simply because I found the game play to be rather bland and unable to compete with any of the Mario games
You'll also possibly notice my sig is from one of my favorite games of all times, Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain, which had a male protagonist and was quite gory, but had an engaging story line and wonderful voice acting.
Actually, I think that you underestimate the effect that this can have. While even moderately tech-savvy people realize this is illegal, there are a lot of people who honestly do not realize they are breaking the law. I have several friends who had thousands of mp3's and a lot of movies and did not realize they were breaking the law untill I happened to make an off-hand comment one day.
This I think is a combination of people not being tech-savvy and people putting too much trust in the government to only make fair laws. (or what is fair in the mind having given very little consideration to the facts about it - i'm not looking to start an argument on the validity or fairness of the laws).
One case-in-point was a friend of mine had some problems with her computer, so I built her one out of parts I had laying around and set it up for her. She wanted me to put kazaa on it and show her how to use it, and so I did. A couple of months later I made some inane comment that made her realize that all the movies and songs she had (as well as windows and office etc) were illegal and she freaked out and actually made me take the hard drive out of the computer and 'destroy' it (I just took it home and put it in my box) then she changed ISPs and kept freaking out everytime she heard sirens for the next several months.
Although even among my non-technical friends that case was a little extreme, it is not that extreme. Maybe I hang around with weird people but from my own experience this is the norm for non-tech savvy people. They just don't know or think about it being illegal. The point to all that being that while commercials may not stop those people who download movies/music in spite of the law, it may stop those who do so under ignorance of the law.
...several years in fact, although in a different form.
A while back a bunch of businesses created a website called slashdot to monitor people who were surfing the net instead of doing work.
I don't know all the details, but I know that they tried to sue my uncle a couple of months ago for that, apparently he made a call to his lawyer and a couple of weeks later they had dropped the suit.
I don't know all the details but if it is the same thing as it sounds, then I don't think people have a lot to worry about.
If you get a tattoo then you instantly become a social outcast. Your friends will hate you, you will never be able to find a job, even flipping burgers, and you'll never be able to find a signifigant other. Not only that but there is a 100% chance that you will contract hepatitis and of course two days after you get the tattoo you will become suicidal due to the intence depression you feel from having made such a big mistake.
In all seriousness though, a tattoo shouldn't be a big deal as long as it is easily concealed by standard business atire.
It seems to me that one of the big reasons for people buying fewer cds is that they have become a major pain in the ass. Why should I go spend $20 on a cd when i'm I can't even play it in my computer, nor am I sure it will play in my car cd player. But that argument aside, my friends and I simply paid for a lot more cd's when it was easier to copy them. We would basically each go out and buy a cd or two a month, and burn copies for everyone who did this, and we ended up getting 6 or 8 cds. If the cd was really good then we probably all ended up buying it. Now it's a pain in the ass and you can't always do that anymore, so we think "eh whats the point" and just download off kazaa. In the end we as a group purchaced fewer cds.
This is really a moot point anyway, because as many people have said before, music sucks.
I'm not sure if using graphics you ripped off other peoples sites is legal under fair use, but either way it seems like kind of a shitty thing to do.
I took a couple of web publishing classes in highschool, where we were required to make all our own graphics or prove that the image we used was in the public domain.
Although I normally make all my own graphics, in the rara occassion that I do use one from someone elses site, I first try to email them and check if it's ok. I then compile a list of any sites I don't get responses from and make sure to list them in a section of a links page with a little thanks and a note saying what graphic I used.
Also make sure that you don't link to the graphic on the persons page, not only is this stealing their bandwidth, but if something happens and the page is gone then you are without your graphic.
--"If I put in my two cents, and it's a penny for my thoughts, do I get change back?" --unknown
but to sell those super duper jumbo sodas really cheap ...and then charge $20 to use the bathroom
seriously the only time you ever have to pee worse than when you wake up in the morning is right after sitting through a movie in the theatre, or is this just me?
Slashdot Mirror
That is true, just goes to show that with enough muscle relaxers one can forget just about anything lol.
I think this whole thing is quite ridiculous(?) honestly.
As I understand, "In God We Trust" was not part of the original pledge and was added sometime in the 50's, sort of a way to spite the 'godless commies' or something to that effect. In this respect I don't see anything wrong with putting it back the way it was before that, but really the whole argument seems pointless to me.
I remember in grade school saying the pledge every morning, and I also remember not getting in trouble for not saying it (at the time I was refusing to say it just trying to be a pain in the ass), and there was no real fuss made.
The thing is, most students from what I remember, just drone through the pledge without really knowing what they are even saying.
If you want to talk about promoting of religion in schools, I think the pledge is a bad example to give, what about all the christmas breaks, coloring pictures of santa, memorizing 'twas the night before christmas, singing silent night, etc. Things may have changed since I was in grade school, but that hasn't been very many years ago (I'm 19) and we were still doing all of those things then.
Teo: Hey benno putting those large pictures and divx movies on the site was a great idea! ...and you still put all those pictures and videos on the site?
Benno: Yes, now the world can see how cool this thing is
Teo: Hmm, the server seems a little slow
Benno: Oh, it looks like we've been posted on slashdot, I expected as much, seeing as we are using linux
Teo:
Benno: Yep
Teo: *SLAP!*
no idea why i'm replying to this but...
that is actually the Konami code, it works in pretty much every konami game out there, just enter it at their logo.
From gamespy's review of Tropico 2
Let's start with the premise. One of the fundamental truths of the universe is that there isn't anything that can't be improved with the addition of pirates, ninjas, or monkeys.
Ok, first off, yes It sucks that that they are using wma and not mp3 or ogg or something, and yes it there could be problems playing it in some cd players, and yes to a bunch of other quite valid complaints.
Why then is this a good thing? because at least they are making an (albeit half-assed) attempt at letting people listen to the music that they paid for.
If it's this or having a virus on the fscking cd to prevent me from playing a song on my computer, then this is definitly a good thing.
The biggest question I have is if the wma tracks are made to only play within this software or can someone just rip them and listen to them in mplayer without the software?
I don't know what's funnier: The joke or the mod who thought it was 'Informative'.
The mod who thought it was informative.
$2.50!
a couple of months ago I bought a box of 30 of 'em for a buck at school. that's not a buck per keyboard, but a buck for the whole box.
I do have to say they are very nice keyboards, my only complaint is that, being a bit bigger than most keyboards now, they don't always fit onto desks as well.
am I the only one who had to do a double take here...
at first I thought he was proposing we do something to the authors genitals.
That reminds me of an error I saw once.
Sorry, I can't find the server your looking for, I mean it's responding to pings but I don't know were it's at in my apartment!
wish I could find the link again.
Well, the biggest loophole I heard was:
"This is not a solicitation call but...<insert solicitation>"
41 million people chose not to get phone-spam.
Given the average level of apathy and general lazyness among the american public, the fact that more than a few hundered thousand signed up should really show the telemarketers (and spammers) how screwed up their business model is.
Now we just need a national "do not spam" list; or better yet, there should be some obscenely high fee for every email over a certain number (something high enough that legitimate businesses wouldn't have to worry about it, let alone home users, but enough to kill spam).
</offtopic>
My question is, how well does this really work. I do not have a home phone (cell phone and IM work just as well); but my grandma signed on for a similar thing offered by the state (MO) before it went national, and it seemed as almost every telemarketer had found a loophole in it.
- Soul Caliber 2
- Neverwinter Nights
- Resident Evil
- Final Fantasy
- Mario Sunshine
- Tony Hawk 4
- Dragon Quest
- Breath of Fire
I tend to prefer games with a storyline, though I still enjoy thumb-twitching games like mario and tony hawk. The resident evil series is one of my favorite game series, and my frends and I like to get together and play it at night. The idea of a games main character being either a "sex object" or a strong femail role modle never has really entered my head, nor have I heard any of my friends mention it.if you're wondering why Tomb Raider isn't on my list, it's simply because I found the game play to be rather bland and unable to compete with any of the Mario games
You'll also possibly notice my sig is from one of my favorite games of all times, Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain, which had a male protagonist and was quite gory, but had an engaging story line and wonderful voice acting.
this also works in Opera, however opera also scales the images, so you really are zooming in and out.
who's first thought was to try and install this OS on a 3gz system with like a gig of ram?
I'm confused, what do children have to do with anything? I'm 19 and have no kids and I can recite all the words to MI :-P
Actually, I think that you underestimate the effect that this can have. While even moderately tech-savvy people realize this is illegal, there are a lot of people who honestly do not realize they are breaking the law. I have several friends who had thousands of mp3's and a lot of movies and did not realize they were breaking the law untill I happened to make an off-hand comment one day.
This I think is a combination of people not being tech-savvy and people putting too much trust in the government to only make fair laws. (or what is fair in the mind having given very little consideration to the facts about it - i'm not looking to start an argument on the validity or fairness of the laws).
One case-in-point was a friend of mine had some problems with her computer, so I built her one out of parts I had laying around and set it up for her. She wanted me to put kazaa on it and show her how to use it, and so I did. A couple of months later I made some inane comment that made her realize that all the movies and songs she had (as well as windows and office etc) were illegal and she freaked out and actually made me take the hard drive out of the computer and 'destroy' it (I just took it home and put it in my box) then she changed ISPs and kept freaking out everytime she heard sirens for the next several months.
Although even among my non-technical friends that case was a little extreme, it is not that extreme. Maybe I hang around with weird people but from my own experience this is the norm for non-tech savvy people. They just don't know or think about it being illegal. The point to all that being that while commercials may not stop those people who download movies/music in spite of the law, it may stop those who do so under ignorance of the law.
...several years in fact, although in a different form.
A while back a bunch of businesses created a website called slashdot to monitor people who were surfing the net instead of doing work.
I don't know all the details, but I know that they tried to sue my uncle a couple of months ago for that, apparently he made a call to his lawyer and a couple of weeks later they had dropped the suit.
I don't know all the details but if it is the same thing as it sounds, then I don't think people have a lot to worry about.
If you get a tattoo then you instantly become a social outcast. Your friends will hate you, you will never be able to find a job, even flipping burgers, and you'll never be able to find a signifigant other. Not only that but there is a 100% chance that you will contract hepatitis and of course two days after you get the tattoo you will become suicidal due to the intence depression you feel from having made such a big mistake.
In all seriousness though, a tattoo shouldn't be a big deal as long as it is easily concealed by standard business atire.
It seems to me that one of the big reasons for people buying fewer cds is that they have become a major pain in the ass. Why should I go spend $20 on a cd when i'm I can't even play it in my computer, nor am I sure it will play in my car cd player. But that argument aside, my friends and I simply paid for a lot more cd's when it was easier to copy them. We would basically each go out and buy a cd or two a month, and burn copies for everyone who did this, and we ended up getting 6 or 8 cds. If the cd was really good then we probably all ended up buying it. Now it's a pain in the ass and you can't always do that anymore, so we think "eh whats the point" and just download off kazaa. In the end we as a group purchaced fewer cds.
This is really a moot point anyway, because as many people have said before, music sucks.
mod parent up +1 wtf?
seriously though If I had $20 for every time I thought that I would be like a hundredaire by now.
ROFL, I don't have any mod points but you became a friend for that one.
Mod Parent Up
I took a couple of web publishing classes in highschool, where we were required to make all our own graphics or prove that the image we used was in the public domain.
Although I normally make all my own graphics, in the rara occassion that I do use one from someone elses site, I first try to email them and check if it's ok. I then compile a list of any sites I don't get responses from and make sure to list them in a section of a links page with a little thanks and a note saying what graphic I used.
Also make sure that you don't link to the graphic on the persons page, not only is this stealing their bandwidth, but if something happens and the page is gone then you are without your graphic.
--"If I put in my two cents, and it's a penny for my thoughts, do I get change back?" --unknown
...would be to not only have cheap tickets
...and then charge $20 to use the bathroom
but to sell those super duper jumbo sodas really cheap
seriously the only time you ever have to pee worse than when you wake up in the morning is right after sitting through a movie in the theatre, or is this just me?